The Portuguese in the Sea of Oman

_ 11 _ given to me from Meliquiaz and after they had left, there arrived a terrada from Ormuz with horses on the Friday. Being the twenty seventh of November and which had come in great fear owing to Portuguese who came in her and who had a share, and this on account of the report there had been of the coming Rumes having passed on to India, and because no merchants had come this year to Ormuz with horses, and similarly had Pero de Albuquerque written to me, and that he had received it many days before, and that at the departure of this vessel there had arrived letters by two other ways, and all agreed and are Quvas (?) of Meliquaiz as regards the war of Adem and their wishing to affect an entry and likewise had taken a city of the King of Adem, which they call Zabit and they slew many people and in her is Miraoacem who comes as Captain to venture on land, and Razz Celnom who is Captain of the sea, took all the vessels he found in the port of Adem, and took them on to Camaram where he has them in the fortress, and will not repair them whilst they do it(?) and says that the King of Adem was going upon Miraoacem who is in Zabit, would that it should please our Lord. And with this departure of the Governor and entry into the Strait, all should by concluded to the service of God and of Your Highness. There came in the ship a cloth,

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